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>> shannon: less than 30 minutes from now attorney general jeff sessions expected to announce a crackdown on the leaks in washington we'll take you live when he steps to the podium. china is stepping up military readiness after a series of missile launches by north korea, why the pentagon is taking very close note. >> china controls 80 percent of the imports into north korea. a massive point of leverage. they wanted a buffer state since 1950. at some point a buffer state that destabilizes the region isn't good for beijing, either.

Single handle the matter of north korea. what card left do you have to get china to act? >> we have the president's twitter feed, we have the most powerful man in the world making it very clear that we came out of the summit with high hopes. let's look at the facts. forget op-ed pieces in newspapers across the globe. china controls more than 80 percent of the imports into north korea. that's a massive point of leverage. china has wanted a buffer state since 1950. but at some point a buffer state that destabilizes the region isn't good for beijing, either. the president has made it clear he is ...

Could survive re-entry into the earth's atmosphere. president trump took to twitter to pass off blame saying, quote, i'm very disappointed in china. our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet they do nothing for us with north korea, just talk. >> wait a second. >> we will no longer -- >> wait. >> i'm sorry. >> richard haass, isn't this quite about-face, i thought donald trump thought one dinner with china would take care of the entire korean problem. >> we've run up gements against the limits of the chocolate cake. >> the most wonder...

They fear if it put too much pressure on the north and the north collapses, the regime collapses, they'll have 22 million north koreans coming across their border. they'll have the u.s. and u.s. forces on the border, there won't be a buffer state, so they view north korea with nuclear weapons as less of a threat than the collapse of north korea, so if we're going to move the chinese to change their posture and to use the leverage that they have, they have to understand that our approach towards this issue is not about regime change in north korea, it's not about forcing the collapse of north k...

That artillery and rocketry on the northern part of south korea, which is where half the south korean population lives. that is not a realistic option in my view. be very reckless because you're endangering millions of people and there would be untold death and destruction, i believe, if such war were to ensue. the chinese don't like kim jong-un's behavior here. they don't like the missile test, they don't like the underground tests and they don't like kim jong-un. it's a strategic imperative they preserve the buffer state and that is utter most in the chinese mind. the only out here is diplom...